If these leftists were not going after carbon dioxide, what other damage would they be doing?
The target is any kind of independence. Your truck, the one that lets you be an independent contractor emits too much carbon. You must invest $100,000 in a new one that is terribly fragile and expensive to maintain. You’re out of business. Your air conditioner is too power hungry and contributes to global warming, you must spend $12,000 on a new one. You can no longer afford those cheap rental units you owned.
Everything, everything, is sacrificed in the name of saving Gaia. Even though if you did it all, you America couldn’t cover just a week’s worth of carbon spewed out by China.